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ELSA-2007-1049 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

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ELSA-2007-1049 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

09/05/2006

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

06/21/2018

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier, when running on IA64 or SPARC platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed ELF file that triggers memory maps that cross region boundaries.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-boot
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-doc
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-hugemem
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-hugemem-unsupported
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-smp
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-smp-unsupported
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-source
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-unsupported

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2006-4538
19702
23447
25216
25387
CVE - 2006-4538
CVE - 2007-2172
CVE - 2007-3739
CVE - 2007-3848
CVE - 2007-4308
DSA-1233
DSA-1237
DSA-1356
DSA-1363
DSA-1378
DSA-1503
DSA-1504
OVAL10120
OVAL10301
OVAL10764
OVAL11455
OVAL8872
RHSA-2007:0014
RHSA-2007:0347
RHSA-2007:0488
RHSA-2007:0705
RHSA-2007:0939
RHSA-2007:0940
RHSA-2007:1049
RHSA-2008:0787
SUSE-SA:2006:079
SUSE-SA:2007:053
SUSE-SA:2007:064
SUSE-SA:2008:006
SUSE-SA:2008:017
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2007-December/000432.html
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